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posted by janrinok on Monday October 17 2016, @04:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the I've-been-nominated-but-you-won't-see-it-for-50-years dept.

During this Nobel Prize season where we celebrate the annual winners, Nature has gone through the Nobel archives and compiled a top ten list of the most nominated, but never won people. The "winners" are:

Gaston Ramon: 155 (Physiology or Medicine)
Emile Roux: 115 (Physiology or Medicine)
Arnold Sommerfeld: 84 (Physics)
Rene Leriche: 79 (Physiology or Medicine)
Jacques Loeb: 78 (Physiology or Medicine)
Albert Calmette 77 (Physiology or Medicine)
Rudolf Weigl 75 (Physiology or Medicine)
Christopher Ingold 68 (Chemistry)
Walter Reppe 63 (Chemistry)
Aldo Castellani 61 (Physiology or Medicine)

The Nobel commission doesn't reveal nomination information for at least 50 years, so one can't say who really has the most nominations. There are a plethora of reasons these people never won the award because the prestige of the prize brings in a variety of factors that have little to do with merit.

"A kaleidoscope of human agency is necessarily involved in awarding the Nobel Prize, as with any other prize," says Friedman. "There are no grounds for assuming the winners of the Nobel Prize constitute a unique population of the very 'best' in science."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @10:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @10:20AM (#415156)

    Big difference.
    Henry V, et al. were actually within weapons range of the opposition.

    Bill Maher was exactly right when he called USA cowardly for the way it uses weapons (cruise missiles in that case) with zero danger to USA's aggressor forces.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @06:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @06:51PM (#415319)

    Well, it IS more manly to go in, guns a-blazin', and taking out a whole town. Or just carpet-bombing it to hell. The precision attacks that severely limit collateral damage really is the sissy way of doing things.

    • (Score: 1) by Francis on Monday October 17 2016, @09:00PM

      by Francis (5544) on Monday October 17 2016, @09:00PM (#415409)

      Except that if you don't have boots on the ground taking some risk, you have no way of knowing if that's a wedding party you're targeting.

      The cruise missiles are cowardly, so are the drone strikes. If we don't care enough about the target to put our troops in harms way, perhaps we should consider if it's really necessary to blow it up. With the exception of robots meant to disarm explosives, robots have no place in combat. All they do is encourage the people with the robots to start conflicts they have not business starting as now none of their people are going to be killed.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @10:04PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @10:04PM (#415441)

        Robert Hamner (and executive producer Gene Roddenberry) had this figured out in the 1960s.
        A Taste of Armageddon [wikipedia.org]

        -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @09:18PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @09:18PM (#415422)

      Dropping bombs on weddings and funerals is the opposite of "manly".

      Dropping bombs on private homes, and in the process murdering women and children (even in adjacent homes), is the opposite of "precision".

      Murdering non-combatants while there is no danger to the USAian aggressor on the other side of the planet is cowardly.

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @10:07PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @10:07PM (#415442)

        So just go back to dropping a bomb and taking out the whole block: be a real Man.

        Limiting causalities is for sissies.